9-letter words starting with y
- yabbering — Present participle of yabber.
- yachtsman — a person who owns or sails a yacht, or who is devoted to yachting.
- yachtsmen — Irregular plural form of yachtsman.
- yahwistic — of, relating to, or characteristic of the Yahwist.
- yale lock — a type of cylinder lock using a flat serrated key
- yamashita — Tomoyuki [taw-maw-yoo-kee] /ˈtɔ mɔˈyu ki/ (Show IPA), ("the Tiger of Malaya") 1885–1946, Japanese general.
- yammering — Present participle of yammer.
- yang-shao — of or designating a Neolithic culture of N China c5000–3000 b.c., characterized by dwellings with sunken floors, domestication of the pig, and a fine handmade pottery painted mainly in geometric designs of spirals and circles.
- yankeedom — the region inhabited by Yankees.
- yankeeism — Yankee character or characteristics.
- yanktonai — a member of one of two tribes of Dakota Indian people who inhabited the northern Great Plains in the 18th and 19th centuries. Compare Yankton (def 1).
- yappingly — in a yapping manner
- yard sale — garage sale.
- yardbirds — Plural form of yardbird.
- yardgrass — Grass in a lawn.
- yardstick — a stick a yard long, commonly marked with subdivisions, used for measuring.
- yarmulkes — Plural form of yarmulke.
- yarn-dyed — (of fabrics) woven from yarns previously dyed (opposed to piece-dyed).
- yaroslavl — a city in the W Russian Federation in Europe, on the Volga.
- yataghans — Plural form of yataghan.
- yawningly — In a yawning way; accompanied by yawns.
- yaxchilan — the ruins of an ancient Mayan city, in Chiapas state, Mexico, famous for its many carved lintels depicting ceremonial and military scenes.
- year 2000 — (programming) (Y2K, or "millennium bug") A common name for all the difficulties the turn of the century, or dates in general, bring to computer users. Back in the 1970s and 1980s, the turn of the century looked so remote and memory/disk was so expensive that most programs stored only the last two digits of the year. These produce surprising results when dealing with dates after 1999. They may believe that 1 January 2000 is before 31 December 1999 (00<99), they may miscalculate the day of week, etc. Some programs used the year 99 as a special marker; there are rumours that some car insurance policies were cancelled because a year of 99 was used to mark deleted records. Complete testing of date-dependent code is virtually impossible, especially where the system under test relies on other systems such as customers' or suppliers' computers. Despite this, the predicted "millennium meltdown" never occurred. Various fixes and work-arounds were successfully applied, e.g. time shifting. And yes, the year 2000 was a leap year (multiples of 100 aren't leap years unless they're also multiples of 400).
- year head — a senior teacher who is responsible for a year in a secondary school
- year zero — the beginning (1975) of the period during which Cambodia was under the control of the Khmer Rouge
- year-long — Year-long is used to describe something that lasts for a year.
- yearbooks — Plural form of yearbook.
- yearlings — Plural form of yearling.
- yearnings — Plural form of yearning.
- yeastless — any of various small, single-celled fungi of the phylum Ascomycota that reproduce by fission or budding, the daughter cells often remaining attached, and that are capable of fermenting carbohydrates into alcohol and carbon dioxide.
- yellowest — Superlative form of yellow.
- yellowfin — A widely distributed, commercially important tuna that has yellow anal and dorsal fins.
- yellowing — Present participle of yellow.
- yellowish — somewhat yellow; tinged with yellow; yellowy.
- yellowred — Of a colour between yellow and red; orange.
- yeniseian — a group of languages spoken in Siberia, the only surviving member of which is Ket.
- yerselves — (nonstandard, or, dialectal) Alternative form of yourselves.
- yessirree — Alternative spelling of yessiree.
- yesterday — on the day preceding this day.
- yestereve — (archaic) yesterday evening.
- yestersol — On the sol before the present one.
- yggdrasil — an evergreen ash tree, the three roots of which bind together Asgard, Midgard, and Niflheim.
- yiddisher — in or relating to Yiddish
- yieldable — capable of yielding or of producing a yield.
- yobbishly — in a yobbish or rowdy manner
- yodelling — (British) present participle of yodel.
- yohimbine — an alkaloid, C 21 H 26 N 2 O 3 , extracted from the bark of Corynanthe johimbe or Rauwolfia serpentina, used as a selective alpha-adrenergic receptor antagonist: purported to have aphrodisiac properties.
- yoke oxen — oxen that are used as draught animals and are attached together by means of a yoke
- yokkaichi — a city on S Honshu, in central Japan.
- york boat — a large rowboat or heavy canoe used for transporting supplies, especially by fur trappers in the Canadian Northwest.
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